Fort Benning, Georgia is back — but not in honor of a Confederate general
A storied Army post originally named after Confederate Gen. Henry L. Benning, then renamed Fort Moore as part of the Biden administration’s purge of military base names that honored rebel leaders, will now revert to its original monicker.
Fort Moore in Georgia renamed to Fort Benning, honoring a WWI veteran
On Monday Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum to rename Fort Moore in Georgia as Fort Benning. Fort Moore was originally named for Lt. Gen. Harold Gregory Moore Jr., who fought in the Vietnam War and earned the Distinguished Service Cross for Valor.
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The base, known as Fort Liberty since 2023, originally was named for Confederate General Braxton Bragg. The Army says it now ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s move to rename Fort Bragg appears to be his latest effort to roll back Biden-administration diversity policies for the military. On Monday, a memo from Hegseth ...
Hegseth said "Fort Bragg is back," in a post seemingly implying the name still honors the Confederate general after which it ...
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Already, about 9,200 U.S. troops in total are at the southern border, including a logistics brigade from the 18th Airborne Corps based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
It starts with ridding the ranks of the notion that wars are won by sensitive efforts to break glass ceilings.
The renaming of Fort Bragg now remembers a toxic gas handler who served in World War II, Private First Class Roland Bragg.
By ordering that the base be named after Corporal Fred Benning, who served in World War One, Hegseth was able to sidestep a ...
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